In 2019, Pakistan made history as the first country to introduce typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) into its routine childhood immunization program. Six years later, the country has vaccinated more than ...
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Tag: drug resistance
Three things to know about typhoid and drug resistance
Drug resistance, also known as antimicrobial resistance, occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve to resist medications that once effectively treated them. This makes infections harder and more expensive ...
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The potential of typhoid conjugate vaccines to reduce antimicrobial use in Pakistan
Drug-resistant typhoid is a major public health challenge in Pakistan, where an estimated 25 percent of cases are extensively drug-resistant (XDR). In Pakistan’s Sindh and Punjab provinces, 65% and 44% ...
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Evolving trends in drug resistance of typhoid fever in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a typhoid-endemic country with a high burden of the disease. Yet, in the community, typhoid diagnosis is often made based on clinical symptoms rather than blood culture, the ...
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La résistance aux médicaments rend urgente l’introduction des vaccins antityphoïdiques conjugués
Au cours du siècle dernier, nous avons été témoins de progrès remarquables en matière de santé mondiale. Les diagnostics et les traitements, ainsi que les vaccins et autres outils de ...
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Drug resistance drives urgency for typhoid conjugate vaccines
Pour lire ce blog en français, veuillez cliquer ici. For the past century we have witnessed remarkable gains in global health progress. Diagnostics and treatments, plus, vaccines and other health ...
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Time to take action with TCV in India
India has long grappled with a significant public health challenge—an alarmingly high typhoid burden. In 2017, more than half of the world’s typhoid cases were projected to have occurred in ...
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A roadmap to tackling drug resistance in Africa
Drug resistance is a major global health challenge and it’s getting worse. A multitude of factors are contributing to the growth of drug resistance in general, and drug-resistant typhoid specifically ...
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Data for decision-making: Utilizing TyphiNET to understand drug-resistant typhoid and inform vaccine introduction
Typhoid, currently endemic in many parts of Asia and Africa, remains a major public health challenge. It can be effectively treated with antibiotics, but drug resistance is increasing. This makes ...
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Inform, engage, vaccinate: reaching the unreachable children in Pakistan
Since an outbreak of extensively drug resistant (XDR) typhoid, Pakistan has made great progress in typhoid prevention and control. In 2019, the country introduced typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV), a highly ...
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